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The Sugar-Free Strategy

Lesson Review Note

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Chat Expressions

it's the thought that counts๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์ฃ 
blood sugarํ˜ˆ๋‹น
sugar-free๋ฌด๊ฐ€๋‹น / ์„คํƒ•์ด ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์€
change of seasonsํ™˜์ ˆ๊ธฐ
yellow dustํ™ฉ์‚ฌ
buy whatever they want์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋“  ์‚ฌ๋‹ค
make hay while the sun shines๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋†“์น˜์ง€ ๋งˆ๋ผ / ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋œฐ ๋•Œ ๋ง๋ฆฌ์ž
crematedํ™”์žฅํ•œ
buffet๋ท”ํŽ˜

It's the thought that counts

์„ ๋ฌผ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด๋‚˜ ํ™”๋ คํ•จ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ฃผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์ง„์‹ฌ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์ •์„ฑ์ด ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ๋กœ, ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ์„ ์œ„๋กœํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ•  ๋•Œ ์ž์ฃผ ์“ฐ์ด๋Š” ๊ฒฉ์–ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Make hay while the sun shines

ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋น„์น  ๋•Œ ๊ฑด์ดˆ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์œผ๋กœ, ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์™”์„ ๋•Œ ๋ฏธ๋ฃจ์ง€ ๋ง๊ณ  ์ฆ‰์‹œ ํ–‰๋™์— ์˜ฎ๊ฒจ์•ผ ํ•จ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•  ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Change of seasons

๊ณ„์ ˆ์ด ๋ฐ”๋€Œ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ธฐ์ธ 'ํ™˜์ ˆ๊ธฐ'๋ฅผ ๋œปํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ณดํ†ต ๋ฏธ์„ธ๋จผ์ง€๋‚˜ ๋ฉด์—ญ๋ ฅ ์ €ํ•˜ ๋“ฑ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์ƒ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์ž์ฃผ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The birthday of Mrs. Gable, a woman of legendary pickiness, had arrived once again. Her three daughtersโ€”Clara, Sophie, and Roseโ€”knew the stakes. Mrs. Gable despised cash, but she also found fault with every physical gift. Two years ago, they bought her a silk robe; she said it made her skin itchy. Last year, they got her an expensive tea set; she claimed the cups were too heavy for her wrists.

"We need to move fast and make hay while the sun shines," Clara said, checking her watch. "The reservation window for the premium hotel buffet closes in ten minutes."

"Iโ€™m open to suggestions," Rose sighed, "but we have to be practical. Momโ€™s blood sugar has been high lately, so we can't just buy her a traditional cake."

"Iโ€™m leaning towards a curated health basket," Sophie suggested. "We can fill it with gourmet sugar-free treats. Itโ€™s elegant and shows weโ€™re paying attention to her health."

Clara shook her head. "I have to push back on the health basket. Sheโ€™ll think weโ€™re calling her frail. With the change of seasons coming up, the yellow dust will be a nightmare. How about a high-end air purifier?"

"Iโ€™m not so sure about that," Rose countered. "An appliance feels like a chore. A real gift should be a luxury. I say we take her to a high-end boutique and let her buy whatever she wants."

"No," Sophie insisted. "She hates the stress of making decisions in public. Last time we took her shopping, she joked she'd rather be cremated than walk another lap around the mall. Let's go with the sugar-free dessert set. We can add a handwritten card saying it's the thought that counts."

"Iโ€™m really sold on the dessert idea," Clara agreed. "Itโ€™s a safe middle ground. What do you say, Rose?"

"It sounds like a plan," Rose nodded. "Letโ€™s settle on this."

On the night of the party at the buffet, Mrs. Gable opened the gold-trimmed box. She tasted a sugar-free lemon tart and sat in silence for a moment. Then, she looked up and smiled thinly. "Well," she remarked, "at least itโ€™s something I can actually enjoy without a lecture from my doctor. This is... acceptable."


์ „์„ค์ ์ธ ๊นŒ๋‹ค๋กœ์›€์„ ์ž๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ์ด๋ธ” ๋ถ€์ธ์˜ ์ƒ์‹ ์ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋Œ์•„์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์„ธ ๋”ธ์ธ ํด๋ผ๋ผ, ์†Œํ”ผ, ๋กœ์ฆˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์˜ ์—„์ค‘ํ•จ์„ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒŒ์ด๋ธ” ๋ถ€์ธ์€ ํ˜„๊ธˆ์„ ๊ฒฝ๋ฉธํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค๋ฌผ ์„ ๋ฌผ ๋˜ํ•œ ๋งค๋ฒˆ ํ ์„ ์žก๊ธฐ ์ผ์‘ค์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2๋…„ ์ „์—๋Š” ์‹คํฌ ๋กœ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ ธ์œผ๋‚˜ ํ”ผ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋ ต๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ๊ณ , ์ž‘๋…„์—๋Š” ๋น„์‹ผ ์ฐป์ž” ์„ธํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ ธ๋”๋‹ˆ ์ž”์ด ์†๋ชฉ์— ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ฌด๊ฒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์™”์„ ๋•Œ ๋ฏธ๋ฃจ์ง€ ๋ง๊ณ  ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์›€์ง์—ฌ์•ผ ํ•ด." ํด๋ผ๋ผ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ํ˜ธํ…” ๋ท”ํŽ˜ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์ฐฝ์ด 10๋ถ„ ๋’ค๋ฉด ๋‹ซํžˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ."

"๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ œ์•ˆ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋งํ•ด๋ด." ๋กœ์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ์ˆจ์„ ์‰ฌ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ด์–ด์•ผ ํ•ด. ์ตœ๊ทผ ์—„๋งˆ ํ˜ˆ๋‹น ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋†’์œผ์…จ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ, ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ผ€์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†์–ด."

"๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ฐ”๊ตฌ๋‹ˆ ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๊ธฐ์šธ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด." ์†Œํ”ผ๊ฐ€ ์ œ์•ˆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ๋ฌด๊ฐ€๋‹น ๊ฐ„์‹๋“ค๋กœ ์ฑ„์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ง€. ์šฐ์•„ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์—„๋งˆ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์— ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ž–์•„."

ํด๋ผ๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์ €์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ฐ”๊ตฌ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์•ผ. ์—„๋งˆ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณธ์ธ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ ฅ์ด ์‡ ํ•œ ๋…ธ์ธ ์ทจ๊ธ‰ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹ค ๊ฑฐ์•ผ. ๊ณง ํ™˜์ ˆ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋ฉด ํ™ฉ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹ฌํ•ด์งˆ ํ…๋ฐ, ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ๊ณต๊ธฐ์ฒญ์ •๊ธฐ๋Š” ์–ด๋•Œ?"

"๊ทธ๊ฑด ์ข€ ์•„๋‹Œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„." ๋กœ์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ๋งž๋ฐ›์•„์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "๊ฐ€์ „์ œํ’ˆ์€ ์ง‘์•ˆ์ผ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์ง€์ž–์•„. ์ง„์งœ ์„ ๋ฌผ์€ ์‚ฌ์น˜์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์•ผ ํ•ด. ๋‚ด ์ƒ๊ฐ์—” ์—„๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ๋ถ€ํ‹ฐํฌ์— ๋ชจ์‹œ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์„œ ์›ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฑด ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋“  ๋‹ค ์‚ฌ์‹œ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด."

"์•ˆ ๋ผ." ์†Œํ”ผ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ์ง‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "์—„๋งˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค ์•ž์—์„œ ๊ฒฐ์ • ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ์‹ซ์–ดํ•˜์…”. ์ง€๋‚œ๋ฒˆ์— ์‡ผํ•‘ํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ”์„ ๋•Œ, ์‡ผํ•‘๋ชฐ์„ ํ•œ ๋ฐ”ํ€ด ๋” ๋„๋А๋‹ˆ ์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ํ™”์žฅ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋‚ซ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋†๋‹ดํ•˜์…จ์ž–์•„. ๋ฌด๊ฐ€๋‹น ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ๋””์ €ํŠธ ์„ธํŠธ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ž. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์— ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์ฃ ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ ํžŒ ์†ํŽธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋„ฃ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์•ผ."

"๋‚˜ ๋””์ €ํŠธ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด์— ์™„์ „ ์„ค๋“๋์–ด." ํด๋ผ๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๋™์˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์ง€์ ์ด๋„ค. ๋กœ์ฆˆ, ๋„ˆ๋Š” ์–ด๋•Œ?"

"์ข‹์•„, ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์ž." ๋กœ์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "์ด๊ฑธ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜์ž."

๋ท”ํŽ˜ ์ž”์นซ๋‚  ๋ฐค, ๊ฒŒ์ด๋ธ” ๋ถ€์ธ์€ ๊ธˆ์ƒ‰ ํ…Œ๋‘๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์ง„ ์ƒ์ž๋ฅผ ์—ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌด๊ฐ€๋‹น ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ํƒ€๋ฅดํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ง›๋ณด์‹  ๋ถ€์ธ์€ ์ž ์‹œ ์นจ๋ฌต์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋”๋‹ˆ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์˜…์€ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์œผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "์Œ," ๋ถ€์ธ์ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "์ ์–ด๋„ ์ด๊ฑด ์˜์‚ฌ ์ž”์†Œ๋ฆฌ ์•ˆ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ๊ตฌ๋‚˜. ์ด๊ฑด... ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉ์ด๋‹ค."